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Beit known that I, JAMES BRAGDON, oi' Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an improved Portable Bench; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings lwhich accompany and form part .of this'spocication, is a description of my invention suicient to enable those skilled in the art to praeticeit, i

The object of my invention is to provide o bench or '-tuble, with supports so arranged that they may be foldedwitbin the skirting or stiffening ledges thereof, and thus occupy no more room than does the top and its skirts or ledges, and so that the supports moy be without the aid of tools or screws, and by any person of ordinary strength extended and braced in such a manner that the table will be stitf and rigid, and capable of supporting weights und strains'equally with ordinary framed tables or benches. And my invention consists in the detail of construction and arrangement by whichsad object is eii'eeted, which detail yI will now proceed to describe, having reference to the drawings, in whichi.

Figure 1 shows my' improved bench, partly in section and partly in side elevation.

Figure 2 shows the same' in end view or elevation; and I Figure in reverseor underneath plan.

The top of the table is'marked a, and is provided with side ledges orskirts, Zi, andend skirts may be added it' desired. The legs, which are marked c, are pivoted to the skirts, the upper inner corners of the legs being rounded oit' from the centres of their pivots; the outer corners being left square, so as to abut against the under surface of the tabletop when the legs are fully extended. I prefer to locate blocks d against the inner side of the legs, and to secure said blocks to the table-top, so as to stiffen the legs against side movements and to Vsupport the leg pivots'. At about the centre of the table-top, and to its undersurfacg fix two blocks, e, at such a dista-nce apart as to admit between them the brace-,pieces f, which ll the spaces between the blocks, in which brace-pieces are cut slot-s, terminating at their outer ends on the upper'sitles in notches, which tit on crossbars, g, as most clearly shown in fig. 1. When the legs are extended, as shown-in'gs. 1 and 2, the cross-hars g, having traversed the slots in the braces f, which are thereby made to assume an angular position, t in the notched ends of the slots, so that to move the legs inwards to fold them it is necessary to raise the braces,and then the legs can be swung inwards so that they and the braces willlie dat upon the underside of the table-top, as seen in fig.4 3.

-For a portable bench, to be carried by mechanics from place to place, this-construction is peculiarly adapted, ns it may be fitted with a vise, as. seen. in the drawin gs, eind'with other needful and convenient appendages.

I claim the combination of legs o and slotted and` notched braces f, when constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as specified.I l

JAMES BRAGDON. Witnesses:

J. 'B. Gnosrr, Fit/mors Gouw, 

